Sacred Flesh movie review

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Directed by Nigel Wingrove

Written by Nigel Wingrove

With Sally Tremaine, Mana Cope, Simon Hill, Kristina Bill, Rachel Taggart, Christopher Adamson, Eileen Daly, Daisy Weston, Moses Rockman, Emily Booth, Laura, Leasa Carlyon, Mary Grant, Nicole Bouchet &Louise Ross

Year : 2000

Country : UK

Length : 72 min

Rating : 7 / 10

SYNOPSIS

In the medieval era, shared between her religious vows and her sexual needs, Mother Superior Elisabeth is swamped with visions; such as her sisters begin to think that she's possessed. Follow numerous confessions and visions...

REVIEW

First, for those who think they'll read a horror movie review, you can quit reading this at once. Indeed, except for some little drops of blood here and there, the horrific effects of this movie are almost inexistent.
To tell what it is at once, it's an erotic movie staging nuns and monks. Long monologues and dialogues about the chastity of the nuns implying the fight between the Church and the Devil, the test of Will and faith, the mental and physical sufferings due to chastity or the question if it make them closer to God, are only pretexts to demonstrate the contrary thanks to images and untold. Definitely, all the moralities taught by the Church of the Middle-Ages, the time when the movie takes place, find their contradiction in lustful scenes be it between nuns, alone or with monks...
This movie, in spite of its pure sexual basis, asks the questions that still haunt the Christian Dogma nowadays. It really well shows the lack of evolution of the Church through the centuries.
However, in spite of the fact that the erotic scenes may be stimulation for some people, they quickly become tedious repeating at closer and closer intervals and we quickly find ourselves wanting to watch it fast forward.
Anyway, we can still find great images, like the one of a kind of “conscience” of Mother Superior represented by a skeleton dressed like a nun or the ones of bloody nuns. The whole movie is quite enjoyable to watch, as the atmosphere of the movie is much of a gothic one, the convent being dark and the only light being given by candles.
Outside of the erotic scenes, the way the actors act is quite convincing though the physical aspect and above all the make-ups are far from what we can think for the inhabitants of a Middle-Age convent.
The film is full of Christian clichés and demonstrates very well the hypocrisy of its Church.
Published on 2005-06-13

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